General Discussions - 300ZX Related

looks like i'm going for a complete rebuild. means the motor will be sorted then. also getting a total respray, and wheels recoated as well, amongst a few other bits and pieces. car should be sorted then. question is, i am yet to get the estimate for a rebuild. so you guys who have done this before, how much did oyu get done and how much did it cost you? i just want to make sure my guy is competitive. cheers and merry xmas. steve

Although I'm new here on the Z Forums, just wanted to wish all of you Z folks in the UK (and elsewhere...) a Merry Christmas from a "Stateside" (US) member. Great site, enjoy... Cheers, mates! :)

My motor has been laid up for the not-insubstantial time of 34 weeks. I collected from Essex on Wednesday and drove the 75-ish miles home OK. Took it out for a spin on Saturday and after around 2 miles the Hicas and Cruise Control warning lights came on. I guess that the Hicas one is down to fluid level....but what about the Cruise Control...I've never had that light come on before. I checked the operation of the Cruise Control and it all seems to function correctly. I thought that this light should only display when you have engaged Cruise Control via the main switch. Any thoughts guys??

i belive the power-window switch is a common fault so i asked Nissan UK for a price, erm £151 pounds thank-you sir....... no thank-you Nissan UK, so i asked CourtesyNissan and they wanted $91, mmm a bit better, but if you want a real cheap and working solution, then go along to your local scrappers, find yourself a 200sx and pinch its power-window switch....... works a treat.......

Hey all...I`m wearing me Santa hat! seriously though, there`s a quick Q. Had my front tension rod bushes replaced recently. A higly reccomended move, front end feels as sharp as a knife! However, it has exposed a weakness in my rear end...left hand lock is cool but the car does slide gradually on mid speed righties. I`m having the rear dampers replaced in January...reckon this will cure it or is there something else I need to be looking at? BTW: A check on all injector connections is cool too. Had one fixed about a fortnight back but another has gone now....car`s running smoothly at idle but no power and very sporadic acceleration. While winters here,…

I have a 91 TT import and I am just doing some winter maintenance , Cleaning connectors etc can someone please tell me where the AAC Valve or Idle air unit is as I have read that its a good idea to clean with WD40 to cure sticky parts ETC Cheers and Merry Xmas everybody

Hi All, Just took delivery of my first 300ZX this weekend! Its a 92 TT auto. Already taken to London and back (500 mile round trip) and even the wife is well impressed. Methinks a good choice of car! I have a few questions? 1. Having enjoyed the traffic of the M25 yesterday, sat in traffic for 2 hours and moving a phenomenal 1 MPH, the car occasionally stalled going from N to D. Is this something to be overly concerned about? It restarted fine, drives fine, and idles smoothly at 750 rpm. I also get full boost (700 mmHg) so I think that the engine management, etc. is OK, and the car never even got hot (on the gauge at least) - yet to do a diagnostic th…

There's a fan that sits in the T-bar and i can hear an irritating squeak as it kicks in,can someone tell me what it's there for and is it necessary,if not can i switch it off? Also my clocks playing up has someone got a spare?????

Hi All, I need to source some Toyo Proxes as cheap as possible (of course) best I have found locally (Chester) for 245 45 16s is £103 - that looks a bit steep to me, I thought it was supposed to be a budget performance tyre?!?! I've done a search but all the previous posts seem to be for Micheldever, mytyres etc - they don't seem to have any stock at the mo' Anyone bought any online recently?? Cheers! RobH

Hi All, I want to give me car a good clean. No... I'm not talking about the body work or interior, I mean the engine. My car is 12 years old now and I would like to start cleaning the connectors and making small replacements as I am running idle at about 1,000 rpm and seem to be getting less than 200 miles per tank even on long motorway journeys. I know I should be at an idle of 750 ish, but I don't just want to turn my idle down as I think this will effect performance (correct me if I'm wrong). Although after running an ECU diag, I got the all clear code (55). I only ran Mode II checks and will run Mode I a little later. I want to start by cleaning the con…

Hi guys, welcome to you all. I am a new comer here. I have previously owned a Z and had to come back to one so i am on the look out for another one. I am after a manual twin turbo with exhaust and wheel modifications. So if anyone has one or knows someone then, please let me asap. Cheers Here is my question, what is the offset for the Z's wheels.? Somebody has offered me some wheels and i am just wondering if they will fit. Also he claimed that they fit the old Z31, so they fit the Z32.

Hi, Trying to locate the fuse for the sidelights, the ones nearest the wheels? Mark

Looking under the bonnet of a TT, the pair of hoses which are ontop with another hose directly below, is the flow to the turbo or from the turbo? Thus which hoses have the boost pressure in, obviously the ones goin in the throttlebodies do and either a) The one next to it ontop, or b) the one next to it below.. Get my drift? Thanks Rob:confused:

Well not quite dead, but certainly seriously ill :( Was coming back from GPS last night after getting my clutch fitted (cheers Latz) when the car started to give an occasional stutter. Had done this before in the wet and I put it down to water drops hitting the MAF. Anyway, eventually it started to stutter bady and as I was driving would intermittantly go back to normal then stutter again. Revs would drop right off, and car would stop. Restart, would usually go OK for a bit again then the problem would resurface. Check engine light didn't come on until the engine had stopped. Haven't done an ECU diagnostic because I had to just get my other car and come straight…

Brake pads have been handed over....I repeat, the brake pads have been handed over... ;)

Just put a deposit down on a Z. :D A silver 1990 Manual TT 2+2 targa with 55k miles on the clock. Bodywork was mint and the dealer has agreed to take my scoob as a trade in and will do a full service + cambelt change before i pick it up. I am very happy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D

Has anyone on here had any dealings with nitrous kits on a Z i have just seen how relatively inexpensive it is(£5-600) and the claims of 50 to 200 bhp increase are quite enticing, i would opt for the less expensive not so balls out but still incredible 75 bhp on tap ??? any help much app, the site claims its v safe, and im seriously considering it, but scared i wreck my motor and wallet

very nice too mate

Car has been running like crap and cutting out So changed the PTU today for a new one and cleaned pretty much every connector in sight car is running much better now apart from tickover and WOT tickover is really lumpy sounds like someone is tapping the throttle and after flooring it had real loss of power. under load , Did an ECU check and got code 22 (what's this) which then dissapeared and i got a 55 , I then got code 42 which i understand is the Fuel Temp Sensor , can anybody please tell me where this is located

Just saw a black import, looked very clean with a high rear spolier. The only thing is it's got 300zx in large red transfers down the side which I would imagine would come off pretty easily. Anyway it's up for £3500. If anyone's interested, let me know and I'll get some more details. It's in NW London by the way. Vijay

Yes thats right £1950, NO OFFERS. The car has engine problems, see the thread below for better description. http://www.300zx.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11731 I think it's headgasket as I'm sure there is oil residue in the coolant. I just cannot get anyone local to look at it, I also cannot source a reasonably priced 2nd hand engine so it's go to go. Believe it or not I have also lost the logbook BUT I have sent off (few days ago) to dvla for another which should be here within two weeks. So come and look at it now, leave a deposit, when the logbooks here, drive it away. It's doing the car no good just sitting here, so take it away…

Just thinking it would be a nice idea to see how many people are still on 56k slowdoms :D

Morning all, I just want to compare this to other peoples manual levers. When in gear I can move the gear stick side to side about an inch and a half. I can do this in every gear, I can not move the gear stick up and down as much and there doesn;t seem to be any other side effects. Is this normal or do I need to replace a bush somewhere ??

Recently my hicas light has been coming on, it only comes on for a few minutes while the car is cold, after that it stays off. did the diagnostic check, no fault came up. Why? is this normal? :confused:

Test...nothing to see here...move along... ;)